Factors that affect the Availability and Adequacy of Food and Its Influence against Food Resilience in the Border of Sambas District

摘要

This study aims to determine the factors that affect the availability and adequacy of food and its effects on the food security of farmhouseholds in the border area. The research location was chosen purposively (purposive sampling) from district level to village level intwo subdistrict coastal and inland areas. This study used a survey method with 265 respondents taken randomly from a population of1121 farmer group members. The data were analyzed using SEM-PLS method 3. The results showed that t-value value ≥ 1.96 and pvalusvalue ≤ 0.05 which means that all the variables have significant effect on food availability and on food sufficiency. Rsquare value0.645 means that all variables (availability of food, food sufficiency, rice stock, IDDL, distance to market and distance to puskesmas)can explain 64,5% influence food security, the rest is influenced by other factors not included in this model. The availability of food isreflected by the production of rice from farmers' household farms with the outer loading coefficient of path (0.939) the largest amongother variables, corn reserves (0.914), cassava reserves (0.846), sweet potato stock (0.823) and sourced from buy rice (-0.760). Foodsufficiency is reflected by the largest price of meat (-0,847) among others, followed by the frequency of meetings of farming mothers invillage organization activities (0.822), fish prices (0.624), number of family members (0.469) and farm income (0.464). Furthermore,the food resilience was reflected by the land carrying capacity index (0.922), the largest among others, rice reserves (0.756), farmers'market distance (0.422), food sufficiency (0.417), food availability (0.398) and distance farm household to health service center (-0.316). Viewed from the category of food security most (78%) of farm households in the border area in food-prone conditions to lessfood.